Tom Hanks Quotes

I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!

Tom Hanks

• New York Yankees

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• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Power
  • Equality

• David Lynch helped me be cool.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Helped

• I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Good
  • Percent
  • Pilot

• I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Myself

• Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • More
  • Become
  • Edge

• Never mind. I knew - that was the great thing.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Great
  • Mind

• We assert-and on the basis of the most recent socialist literature that you cannot deny-that the real history of capitalism is only now beginning, because capitalism is not just a system of oppression; it also represents a choice of value,…

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Real
  • History
  • Value

• In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.

  

  Elie Metchnikoff
  • World
  • Nature
  • High

• I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Time
  • Period

• It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • Fashion
  • Grunge

• When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I had were the ones I would steal.

  

  DMX
  • Family
  • Car

• I hate when people say models don't have personalities; what does that even mean? Everyone has a personality.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • People
  • Hate
  • Personality

• But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

  

  John Thune

• The Fresh Direct model doesn't work.

  

  John Catsimatidis
  • Work
  • Model

• As soon as we started looking at them, we saw the most remarkable situation. My first thought was, 'Great guns! Something's gone wrong with the apparatus!' But then we got later North American tapes and everything seemed normal again.

  

  James Van Allen
  • Great
  • American

• There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Raven

• It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.

  

  Jorge Paulo Lemann
  • Small
  • Effort

• My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Up
  • Years
  • Path

• Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Success
  • Journey

• 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Country

• At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

  

  Leonard Woolf
  • Writer
  • Portrait
  • Diaries

• There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet that I know of who writes in English in the United States is anything but a humanist. So all poets, including myself, seem to be under that umbrella. We just don't have Rush Limbaugh poets, Ann Coulter poets.

  

  David Biespiel
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Poet

• I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!

  

  Tom Hanks
  • New York Yankees